Filing-case.



No. 637,033. Patanted Nov. I4, |899.

Eye. mcmmnsj- FILING cAsE.

(Application Mld Aug. 28, 1699.)

(lo Model.)

WITNESSEISZZ M UNITED STATESv PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN G. RICHARDS, OF SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS.

FILING-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,033, dated November14, 1899.

Application iled August 28, 1899. Serial No. 728,659. (No model.)

of Massachusetts, have invented certain new.

and useful Improvements in Filing-Oaseaof which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to cases or drawers adapted to hold cards, slips,or iiles in position to permit ready access to and inspection of anypart of the contents of the case; and it has for its object to providean improved backer or support for the collection of slips, dac.,contained in the case, said backer being adjustable to permit theintroduction of any desired number of slips between` it and the frontend ofthe case. v

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed todescribe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figure l represents a perspective View of a filing case or drawerprovided with my improvement. Fig. 2 represents a transverse section ofthe same. Fig. 3 represents a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4represents a` view similar to Fig. 3, showing the slip-hacker in itsreleased position. Fig. 5 represents aview similar to Fig. 3, showing amodification. Y Fig. 6 represents a section on line 6 6 of Fig. 5.

The same letters and numerals'of reference indicate the same parts inall the figures.

In the drawings, @represents a ling-case, which is here shown as adrawer, although my invention is not limited to a drawer-shaped case.

In the bottom of the case is a longitudinal slot a', having portions 2 2of its walls or 'sidesV formed as locking members adapted to coperate,as hereinafter described, with a movable locking member. Said lockingmembers 2 2 are shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4 as beveled faces formingparts of the sides of the slot a.

b represents a backer for the collection of slips contained by the case.I use the term slips to indicate any articles which are or may be heldin a case of this character, and they may be pieces of single thickness,such as cards, or of several thicknesses, such as folded bills, files,dac.

The bottom of the hacker b' is composed of two faces 3 and 4, arrangedat different angles, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and adapted to supportthe backerin two positions. From the face 3 projects a lockingmemberb',which enters the slot a and is formed to engage the members 22. As shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, the locking member has the form of ascrew with a tapering head, which is arranged to bear against thebeveled faces 2 2 when the backer is in the position shown in Figs. 2and tact of said head with the faces 2 2 to lock the backer againstbackward movement by the pressure of the slips inserted between it andthe front end of the case. When the hacker is in the position shown inFig. 4, the lookin g member b is separated from the faces 2 2 and isfreely movable in the slot in either direction. It will be seen,therefore, that when the backer b is in the position shown in Figs. 1and 2 it forms a firm support for the slips, and when itis desirable toadjust the hacker toward or from the front end of the case this can bedone by tipping the hacker to the position shown in Fig. 4 and slidingit in the direction required, the backer being again locked by restoringit to the position shown in Fig. 3.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I show a modification in which `the slot is providedwith corrugated faces 2O 20and the hacker is provided with a lockingmember composed of a shank 2l, having rings 22 22, formed to engage thecorrugations of the faces 20, thus positively locking the hacker.Various other modifications may be adopted without departure from thespirit of my invention. The face 4 of the backer may have one or morelocking members formed as spurs 23, adapted to engage the bottom of thecase, as shown in Fig. 5.

Having thus explained the nature of my invention and described a way ofconstructing and using the same, although without attempting to setforth all the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of itsuse, what I claim', and Vdesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A filing case or drawer having a longitudinal slot in its bottomformed with locking members, and an adjustable slip-hacker movable insaid case and having two bottom faces arranged at different angles andadapted to bear alternately on the bottom of the drawer,

o. Sufficient friction is caused by the con.

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and support the baeker in two positions, one of said faces having alocking member which engages the locking members of said siot when thehacker is in one position, and is separated from the locking member ofthe slot when the baoker is in the other position.

2. A filing ease or drawer having a longitudinal slot in its bottomformed with looking members and an adjustable slip-backermovable in saidcase and having two bottom faces arranged at dierent angles and adaptedto bear alternately on the bottom of the drawer,

